On 26 September 2010 11:48, Toby Inkster <mail at tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:
> Melvster brought up the concept of the Semantic Inbox on #swig the
> other day. My semantic inbox would be an HTTP(S) URI that accepted POST
> requests, preferably in semantic formats such as RDF and Atom, and held
> them for me to do something with.
>> The Semantic Web is, in a way, not a product but a process; not a
> destination but a journey. The goal being to take our existing web and
> make it more meaningful.
>> The Semantic Inbox I think should be the same, but what should the
> starting point of the Semantic Inbox journey be? I think it should be
> the HTTP inbox. With that in mind, I've written a few quick scripts to
> easily set up an HTTP inbox:
>>http://goddamn.co.uk/viewvc/misc/php-mods/http-mbox/>> This initial implementation just acts as a gateway, forwarding incoming
> messages to a mailbox via SMTP. Copy all the files onto your server,
> and edit mbox.php as appropriate. Feel free to rename mbox.php to
> whatever you want - that's the file that is your Semantic Inbox.
>> If accessed over HTTPS, the inbox will perform WebID authentication,
> and pick up the sender's email address from their foaf:mbox. The sender
> email address can also be provided explicitly using the HTTP From
> header.
>> The script calls webid.pl - a Perl implementation of WebID. If you
> don't have Perl and the prerequisite modules installed, then WebID
> support won't work. (I plan on adding support for libAuthentication
> too, but couldn't be bothered to set up MySQL. Coming soon...)
>> Once you have an HTTP inbox, you should link to it in your FOAF so that
> it can be discovered:
>> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk/#i>
> <http://purl.org/NET/semantic-inbox#mbox>
> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk/mbox> .
>> I encourage people on this list to set themselves up an HTTP inbox.
> Once there are a few people with this set up, we can start to figure
> out what's possible with the technology.
>> You can send me a message using curl:
>> echo 'Hello Toby!' | curl -X POST \
> -k -E path/to/your/x509/cert.pem \
> -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
> -d @- \
>https://tobyinkster.co.uk/mbox>> Let's force a From address and Subject line:
>> echo 'Hello Toby!' | curl -X POST \
> -k -E path/to/your/x509/cert.pem \
> -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
> -H 'From: you at example.net' \
> -H 'Subject: blah blah blah' \
> -d @- \
>https://tobyinkster.co.uk/mbox>> Let's do a non-authenticated request:
>> echo 'Hello Toby!' | curl -X POST \
> -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' \
> -H 'From: you at example.net' \
> -H 'Subject: blah blah blah' \
> -d @- \
>http://tobyinkster.co.uk/mbox
Awesome!
Message sent with Message-ID:
<http-mbox-gateway.89fa923dd4a0b40e629f2f52cebdcacc at 192.168.0.11>.
>> --
> Toby A Inkster
> <mailto:mail at tobyinkster.co.uk>
> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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